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What a way to follow up a birth announcement.  Here goes? Robots are threatening white collar jobs not just blue collar jobs America!  It's a great piece in the current Mother Jones issue written by Kevin Drum.  Tim Luddy  at Mother Jones had a great concept for this assignment, which I attempted to follow through on.  The likely scenario's at the work place, such as the elevator, the bathroom and the watercolor were ideal for a confrontation of man vs machine.  This posed a few challenges of course - like- what should the Robot look like? and should it be threatening or friendly looking.   Then Tim forwarded over some shot's of the Terminator robot and that clarified it for me.   However threatening that robot may look like - a toothy smile and a briefcase could soften him up.   This was a great opportunity and I'm thankful to Tim Luddy for thinking of me for this feature.











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My wife, Sarah, my son, Christian, and I welcomed Vivienne Rose to the Parada family on Feb 15, 1:01 pm.  Mother and baby are doing great. 





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This Land is Not Your Land.  A take off on Woody Guthrie and the teaser headline for Harper's cover story this month.   Thanks to the great Roger Black for giving me this opportunity, for a great read and a great discussion we shared over the phone prior to sketches and the final.   The story which takes place in Fremont, Nebraska,small town America, where industry has seen it's better days and people are nostaligic for decades long gone.  But things change as they do all over America.  A growing working class of immigrants has come and revitalied Fremont but the hometown folks can't accept this growing reality and a legal battle ensues as the Dream Act is tested.    To read this deeply important piece you'll have to subscribe to Harpers or pick it up on the newstand.  It's not for free nor should it be. 





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Thanks to Justin Page at Playboy for gifting me this really fun assignment.  Its a entertaining read based on a true story regarding Black Panter founder, Huey Newton and Hollywood rebel producer Burt Schneider of Monkee's and Easy Rider fame.  The story written by Josh Bearman is the perfect material for a live action film.  He also wrote the first piece in print on what became the film "ARGO".   I included the link to the article here as well if your intrested in a good read.  The assignment was to create a 70's like Blaxplotation poster.  I think the type solution is fantastic so I scanned my tearsheets.

http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/the-big-cigar





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So this was quite a momentous week.  A president re-elected and I managed to sneak my Obama cover by the editors at Newsweek.  Sean Noyce, graciously gave me this opportunity around 10 pm on Sunday.  I should have been on my couch watching football but I was slavishly working on another cover opportunity that was coming to an end as well as emptied my "MOJO Tank".  More on that in a future post.  So as I was nearing the end of that painting when I heard the "Ding" on my macmail...  Do you have time for a cover assignment?.... I was asked...as my eyes were bloodshot and my mind was questionable...  Sure...  It's an instinctual reflex.  Well I've been painting for about 21 days straight, why stop now!  So It was one of those things. It shouldn't have been so easy... but fortunately it was.  The adrenaline of the election and the confirmation of the Obama victory made me focused and determined to get this right.  It's my first Newsweek cover and probably my last in the print form as they are going all digital shortly.   I got lucky.





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